removing static libs

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Thu, 29, May 2003, edscott wilson garcia wrote:

> Hi everybody,

Hey edscott,

> Looking through /usr/local/lib I noticed that the make install procedure
> used is generating static .a libraries along the dynamic .so ones. This
> is bad news since the .a libraries are not used and just hog up disk
> space (~20MB). Does anybody know what to put in the Makefile.am files so
> that they will not be generated?
> Any clues or suggestions will be appreciated.

If you don't like the static libs to be installed, use --disable-static with
configure. That should prevent the static libs from being build and installed.

> saludos,
> Edscott

regards,
Benedikt

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